Geoffrey J. Giles

Publications

Updated April 2011

Books:

Students and National Socialism in Germany (Princeton University Press, 1985)

Homosexuality in the Nazi Movement (forthcoming)

Co-edited books:
Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles and Walter Pape, Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences. Series: Yearbook of European Studies, 13 (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1999)

Edited works

Archivists and Historians: The Crucial Partnership. German Historical Institute Occasional Paper No. 17. Washington, DC, 1996.

Stunde Null: The End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago.  German Historical Institute Occasional Paper No. 20. Washington, DC, 1997.

Chapters in books:

"The Rise of the National Socialist Students' Association and the Failure of Political Education in the Third Reich," in Peter D. Stachura (Ed.), The Shaping of the Nazi State (London & New York, 1978), pp. 160-185.

"Die Idee der politischen Universität. Hochschulreform nach der Machtergreifung," in Manfred Heinemann (Hrsg.), Erziehung und Schulung im Dritten Reich. Teil 2: Hochschule, Erwachsenenbildung (Stuttgart,1980), pp. 50-60.

"Die Verbändepolitik des Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbundes," in Christian Probst (Hrsg.), Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Einheitsbewegung im neunzehnten und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, Band 11 (Heidelberg, 1981), pp. 95-155.

"National Socialism and the Educated Elite in the Weimar Republic," in Peter D. Stachura (Ed.), The Nazi Machtergreifung (London, 1983), pp. 49-67.

"Zur Sozialgeschichte des Alkohols in Deutschland," in "Wem der geprant wein nutz sey oder schad..." Zur Kulturgeschichte des Branntweins (Hilden, 1989), pp. 85-98.

"La estructura del sistema de educación superior en la República Democrática Alemana," in Karen E. Kovacs (Ed.), La revolución inconclusa. Las universidades y el Estado en la década de los ochenta (San Angel, Mexico, 1990), pp. 57-97.

"Student Drinking in the Third Reich: Academic Tradition and the Nazi Revolution," in Susanna Barrows & Robin Room (Eds.), Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History (Berkeley, 1991), pp. 132-43.

"Professor und Partei: Der Hamburger Lehrkörper und der Nationalsozialismus," in Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber und Holger Fischer (Hrsg.), Hochschulalltag im "Dritten Reich": Die Hamburger Universität 1933-1945 (Berlin/Hamburg, 1991), I, pp. 113-124.

"'Die Fahne hoch, die Reihen dicht geschlossen': Die Studenten als Verfechter einer völkischen Universität?" in Eckhard John, Bernd Martin, Marc Mück & Hugo Ott (Hrsg.), Die Freiburger Universität in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (Freiburg/Würzburg, 1991), pp. 43-56.

"Schooling for Little Soldiers: German Education in the Second World War," in Roy Lowe (Ed.), Education and the Second World War: Studies in Schooling and Social Change (London/Washington, D.C., 1992), pp. 17-29.

"Die Übersetzung primärer Quellen der Sozialgeschichte Deutschlands," Armin Paul Frank et al. (Hrsg.), Übersetzen, verstehen, Brücken bauen: Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch (Berlin, 1993), pp. 427-435.

"Die Tätigkeit Hamburger Hochschullehrer in der NS-Bewegung," in Günter Grau & Peter Schneck, Akademische Karrieren im "Dritten Reich": Beiträge zur Personal- und Berufungspolitik an Medizinischen Fakultäten (Berlin, 1993), pp. 83-88.

“Straight Talk for Nazi Youth: The Attempt to Transmit Heterosexual Norms,” in Johan Sturm, Jeroen Dekker, Richard Aldrich & Frank Simon, Education and Cultural Transmission: Historical Studies of Continuity and Change in Families, Schooling and Youth Cultures, Gent 1996 [Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series Volume II], pp. 305-318.

“The Politics of Ambiguity: Reparations, Business Relations, Denazification and the Allied Transfer of Technology,” [co-authored with Johannes Bähr & Paul Erker] in Matthias Judt & Burghard Ciesla (Eds.), Technology Transfer Out of Germany After 1945 (Amsterdam: Harwood, 1996), pp. 131-144.

“Self-Help in the Search for Democracy in Heidelberg,” in Jürgen Heß, Hartmut Lehmann & Volker Sellin, Heidelberg 1945 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996), pp. 75-81.

"Women, Men and Unification: Gender Politics and the Abortion Struggle Since 1989," [co-authored with Joyce Mushaben & Sara Lennox], in Konrad H. Jarausch (Ed.), After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities (Providence, 1997), pp. 137-172.

"Who Owns the Past? The Surrender of the Berlin Document Center," and
"How To Use An Archive," in Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes & Jonathan Petropoulos (Eds.), German Studies As Cultural Studies: A User's Manual (Chicago, 1997), pp. 377-388 and 483-487.

“Blind in the Right Eye: German Justice and Holocaust Denial,” in Peter Hayes (Ed.), Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization, and Denial (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999),  pp. 248-253.

“Popular Education and New Media: The Cigarette Card in Germany,” in Marc Depaepe & Bregt Henkens (Eds.), The Challenge of the Visual in the History of Education. Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Volume VI: Gent, 2000, pp. 449-469.

“Die erzieherische Rolle von Sammelbildern in politischen Umbruchszeiten,” in Dietrich Papenfuß & Wolfgang Schieder (Hrsg.), Deutsche Umbrüche im 20. Jahrhundert (Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2000), pp. 241-265.

“The Institutionalization of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich”, in Robert Gellately and Nathan Stolzfus (Eds.), Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2001), pp. 223-255

“Männerbund mit Homo-Panik: Die Angst der Nazis vor der Rolle der Erotik”, in Burkhard Jellonnek & Rüdiger Lautmann (Eds.), Nationalsozialistischer Terror gegen Homosexuelle: Verdrängt und ungesühnt (Schöningh: Paderborn, 2002), pp. 105-118.

“Through Cigarette Cards to Manliness: Building German Character with an Informal Curriculum,” in Joyce Goodman & Jane Martin, Gender, Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Experience (London & Portland: Woburn Press, 2002), pp. 73-96.

“Confirming Their Prejudices: German University Students and Himmler’s Resettlement Program,” in Larry V. Thompson (Ed.), Lessons and Legacies IV: Reflections on Religion, Justice, Sexuality, and Genocide (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003), pp. 236-249.

“A homoszexuálisok náci üldözése a megszállt országokban,” in Judit Molnár (Ed.), A Holokauszt Magyarországon Európai Perspektívában (Budapest: Balassi Kiadó, 2005), pp.412-430, and

“The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals in Occupied Countries: A Lenient Exception to Normal Justice Against Non-Germans?”, in Judit Molnár (ed.), The Holocaust in Hungary: A European Perspective (Budapest: Balassi Kiadó, 2005), pp. 418-434.

"The Denial of Homosexuality: Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler's SS and Police," in Dagmar Herzog (ed.), Sexuality and German Fascism (New York: Berghahn, 2005), pp. 256-290. 

“A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confusion in the Discrimination Against Homosexuals in the Wehrmacht,” in Jonathan Petropoulos & John K. Roth, Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath (New York: Berghahn, 2005), pp. 127-146.

“Drinking and Crime in Modern Germany,” in Peter Becker & Richard F. Wetzell, Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 471-485.

“Why Bother About Homosexuals? Homophobia and Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany” [in Chinese], in Lihong Song (Ed.), Holocaust: History and Memory (Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China: Daxiang Publishing House, 2007), pp. 234-252.

“The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals in Occupied Countries: A Lenient Exception to Normal Justice Against Non-Germans?” in Anton Weiss-Wendt (Ed.), Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 41-59.

“The Persecution of Gay Men and Lesbians during the Third Reich,” in Jonathan C. Friedman (Ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 385-396.

Articles

"The Structure of Higher Education in the German Democratic Republic," Higher Education, 7, 1978, pp. 131-156.

"University Government in Nazi Germany: Hamburg," Minerva, XVI, 2, Summer 1978, pp. 196- 221.

"German Students and Higher Education Policy in the Second World War," Central European History, XVII, December 1984, pp. 330-354.

"Die Alkoholfrage im Dritten Reich," Drogalkohol, 3, December 1986, pp. 257-265.

"Temperance Before the Temperance Movements: Some Examples from Eighteenth-century Children's Literature in England and Germany," History of Education, 20, 4, 1991, pp. 295-305.

"'The Most Unkindest Cut of All': Castration, Homosexuality and Nazi Justice," Journal of Contemporary History, 27, 1, January 1992, pp. 41-61.

"University History in the New German States: the Condition of the Archives," German History, 10, 3, October 1992, pp. 366-391.

"Reeducation at Heidelberg University," Paedagogica Historica, XXXIII, 1, 1997. Special issue: Mutual Influences on Education: Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century,  pp. 201-219.

“The Denial of Homosexuality: Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler’s SS and Police,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11, 1/2, January/April 2002, pp. 256-290.

“Legislating Homophobia in the Third Reich: The Radicalization of Prosecution Against Homosexuality by the Legal Profession,” German History, 23, 3, 2005, pp. 339-354.

Proceedings

"Nazi Policy Towards Student Fraternities," in Michael B. Barrett (Ed.), Proceedings of the Citadel Symposium on Hitler and the National Socialist Era (Charleston, 1982), pp. 46- 53.

"The Social Profile of the German Student Body in the Third Reich," in Agustìn Escolano Benito (Ed.), Higher Education and Society. Historical Perspectives (Salamanca, 1985), Vol. 1, pp. 162-170.

"The Diminished Rôle of Formal Education in National Socialist Germany," in Giovanni Genovesi (Ed.), Conference Papers for the Eighth Session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Vol. III, Social- Economic Life and Compulsory Education (Parma, 1986), pp. 89-98.

"Oxbridge in Jackboots? The Attraction of Oxford and Cambridge for University Reformers in National Socialist Germany," in Sándor Komlósi (Ed.), History of International Relations in Education, (Pécs, 1987), Vol. 1, pp. 192-201.

"Classroom Temperance in Early Twentieth Century Germany," in Simo Seppo, The Social Role and Evolution of the Teaching Profession in Historical Context (Joensuu, 1988), Vol. IV, pp. 77-86.

"Nudism of the Left and Right: Gymnastics in Weimar Germany," in Jordi Monés & Pere Solà (Eds.), Education, Physical Activities and Sport in a Historical Perspective (Barcelona, 1992), pp. 326-331.

Monographs

"Der NSD-Studentenbund und der Geist der studentischen Korporationen," Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hochschulkunde: Würzburg, 1976. 21 pp. Also printed in Burschenschaftliche Blätter, 9, 7, October/November 1976.

"University Reform in Quebec: The Strike at Laval, 1976," Yale Higher Education Research Group Working Paper Series, YHERG-17, August 1977. 23 pp. Also published online at the ERIC database (www.eric.ed.gov) with document ID # ED145756.

“The Social Councils in the Universities of East Germany: An Exercise in Democratic Centralism,” Yale Higher Education Research Group Working Paper Series, 1978. Also published online at the ERIC database (www.eric.ed.gov) with document ID # ED145782.

"Higher Education in Yugoslavia," Yale Higher Education Research Group Working Paper Series, YHERG-39, December 1979. 36 pp.

Why Bother About Homosexuals? Homophobia and Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany. Occasional Paper Series, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, August 2002. Accessible online at:

http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/occasional/2002-04/paper.pdf

Now also accessible online in Chinese at: http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/occasional/2002-04/chinese.pdf

Review essays

"The Academic Ethos in the Face of National Socialism," Minerva, XVIII, 1, Spring 1980, pp. 171-179.

"Educational Policy in Nazi Germany," The Review of Education, 11, 2, Spring 1985, pp. 91-96.

Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18, 3, September 2009, pp. 526-532.

Miscellaneous Reports & Articles

"Berlin's 750th Anniversary Exhibitions," German History, 6,2, 1988, pp. 164-170.

"Social History in Switzerland," German History, 6, 3, 1988, pp. 282-285.

"How to Prevent the Writing of History," German Studies Association Newsletter, XIII, 2, Winter 1988, pp. 32-34.

"The Westphalian School Museum at Dortmund," History of Education Society Bulletin, 43, Spring 1989, pp. 8-9.

"The Central State Archives at Potsdam: Glasnost for Western Historians?", German History, 7,1, 1989, pp. 133-135.

"Displaying the Past at Potsdam," German History, 7, 1, 1989, pp. 118-123.

"Accessing the Archives and Soiling the Nest: Historians and University Records from the Third Reich," German Studies Association Newsletter, XIV, 2, Winter 1989, pp. 36-43.

"Swedish Wine and Spirits Museums," The Social History of Alcohol Review, 19, Spring 1989, pp. 23-24.

"German Beer Museums," The Social History of Alcohol Review, 19, Spring 1989, pp. 25-27.

"German and French Wine Museums," The Social History of Alcohol Review, 19, Spring 1989, pp. 28-30.

"The National Register of Archives, London, as a Source for Temperance History," The Social History of Alcohol Review, 21/22, 1990, pp. 14-24.

"The Stasi Archive in the Freienwalder Strasse, East Berlin," in German Studies Association Newsletter, XVI, 1, Winter 1991, pp. 34-38.

“Taking the Waters: Comical Anti-Semitism in 1900,” HaTannin, 18, Spring 2007, pp. 5-7.

Translations

Translator of two chapters, and author of critical, historical introduction, in John Bornemann (Ed.), Gay Voices from East Germany. Interviews by Jürgen Lemke (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1990), pp. 11-36.

Hasso Spode, “Germany,” in Jack S. Blocker Jr., David M. Fahey & Ian R. Tyrell (Eds.), Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Denver & Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2003), Volume I, pp. 257-263.

Scholarly Book Reviews

Approx. 100

See separate list on my webpage at: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ggiles/bkrev411.pdf